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Memos and orders of Adm, Earl St Vincent, when in command of the Channel Fleet, 25 April 1800-3 January 1801 (Manuscript)
1800-1801
RUSI/NM/89
Journals kept by an anonymous lieutenant, HMS IRON DUKE, LONDON, KITE, and VALIANT; and the Chinese gunboat ETA on passage to the East, 1874-79. (Manuscript)
1874-1879
RUSI/NM/167
Notebook of gunnery notes 1907-11 (Manuscript)
1907-1911
RUSI/NM/241/4/9
Letterbook of Captain John Bythesea, HMS CRUISER, ARCHER and PHOEBE, 1856-68 (Manuscript)
1856-1868
RUSI/NM/166
Logbook, Mid W Loring, HMS UNDAUNTED, ALIGATOR, and BRITANNIA, 1827-31 (Manuscript)
1827-1831
RUSI/NM/160
Logbook, Mid W Loring, HMS MELVILLE and WOLF, 1831-34 (Manuscript)
1831-1834
RUSI/NM/161
Typescript with illustrations The Record of a Britannia Term, July 1883-July 1885, by Captain H T A Bosanquet, (1958) (Manuscript)
1883-1885
RUSI/NM/157
Commander's Orderbook, 9 August 1915-4 January 1917 (Manuscript)
1915-1917
RUSI/NM/241/2/1
Journal 1 Apr-4 June 1919, FOX (Manuscript)
1919-1919
RUSI/NM/241/1/5
Journal of HMS SOLE BAY, Captain J. Holloway, 10 Apr-7 July 1789, kept by John C. Mills, with notes on seamanship and navigation (Manuscript)
1789-1789
RUSI/NM/196
Naval Gunnery as taught on board HMS CAMBRIDGE, Captain R W Jerningham. By Thomas Davies, AB, 1858-59 (Manuscript)
1858-1859
RUSI/NM/173
Journal, in the form of three notebooks, kept by the Rev Henry Sainsbury, Chaplain of HMS DEFENCE, (Captain Wells), 1 May 1795-18 January 1797 (Manuscript)
1795-1797
RUSI/NM/176
Folder containing four letters including letter on the trial Admiral John Byng, 1757. (Manuscript)
1757-1815
RUSI/NM/91/A-C
GUARDIAN, Observations by R F - account by the purser, Farquarson, of the boat trip to the Cape, with a typed transcript, 22 Dec 1789-19 January 1790 (Manuscript)
1789-1790
RUSI/NM/235/ER/7/1
Photocopies of RUSI/NM/137/A&B. (Manuscript)
1626-1903
RUSI/NM/137/C
Papers of Admiral The Hon George H Douglas, 1821-1905. See full list in printed catalogue. (Manuscript)
1821-1905
RUSI/NM/126
Logbook of HMS VALIANT, 1 June 1813-11 July 1814 (Manuscript)
1813-1814
RUSI/NM/117
Two letters consisting of a copy of a letter to Captain Symonds from Captain John McKerlie, Malta, 1835, re the sailing qualities of the VERNON and a facsimile of a letter from Lord Nelson to his father informing him of the title of Duke of Bronte. (Manuscript)
1799-1835
RUSI/NM/115/A
Rear-Admiral Thomas Webster Kemp; Award of C.B., 1917; Award of C.M.G., 1918 (Manuscript)
1917-1918
RUSI/NM/251
Miscellaneous papers relating to the service of Captain Sir Samuel Marshall, 1762-93, including memorandum book kept by Marshal when lieutenant in the NOTTINGHAM, West Indies, 1762 (Manuscript)
1762-1793
RUSI/NM/200
Private journals and memoranda books of Lieutenant William Bryan Wyke, 1782-99. HMS GIBRALTAR, VILLE DE PARIS, THESEUS, VICTORY, PRINCE GEORGE, BOYNE. (Manuscript)
1782-1799
RUSI/NM/36
List of ships of the Royal Navy with their dimensions, when and where they were built and number of guns. (Manuscript)
1808-1816
RUSI/NM/64
Two lists consisting of a list of the Captains who have served in command on HM Ships since the Revolution in 1688. Corrected up to Oct 1715 and a general list of the Captains of HM Fleet with dates of their first Commissions, 1713 (Manuscript)
1688-1715
RUSI/NM/106
Sailing and fighting instructions with signals for HM Fleet, issued by Admiral Byron, 1778-82 (Manuscript)
1778-1782
RUSI/NM/105/A
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